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Thanks Bob, There are a lot of similar names around there, the family actually came from Nottingham...Our JHC would have would have only been 2 yrs old at that time....... his father William Cooper Carrington moved from Nottingham to Loughborough , then the family moved to Bristol Street...

Just the other day I had an email that looked very official from Royal Mail......picture of the Royal Mail van on it with postie walking from it all official Royal Mail logos and so on.......the day it said this item couldn't be delivered was a day when I'd been chatting to our postman so I knew...

Brilliant....started his own Ian Allan spotting ref....how about that ????

What an interesting post....super history....thanks

Thanks guys that's the one I already have but there's another I've seen somewhere that is a good view of them lined up from Cotteridge Park itself and the locos are on the embankment which is just that bit higher than the viewing line of sight that makes them quite a striking image....

Thanks for that....I've looked at that previously and noted at that time a favourite loco from the Halesowen Branch duties 58138 in the queue ...... but I have seen somwhere a shot from Cotteridge Park of them all lined up.....maybe it was Pinterest...but many thanks for the input.

Going back in time to the 1950's and the ending of steam......I wondered if there was anyone that had a photo or photos of the 2F...3F..& 4F locos lined up at Bournville Shed (21B) awaiting the scrappie......they were visible from Cotteridge Park ....of course now one wishes we'd taken more...

I wondered if it was you Mark.......yeah OK thanks....I think Monument Lane George went to Wales...

Oh those memories of the walk...I did that as well...and still remember the stalls that had repro shed plates for sale, it was interesting to see the soot still on the tunnels that remained after the passing of time, I also went back a year or two after to wander around the station and where the...

Welcome Rogsaddler....always good to see old spotters around....... and all the memories we are so very lucky to have.....though did we at that time realise just how lucky we were ???

Yes...we had some green and red tokens given to us by the school........the school somehow got involved in Irish dancing and there were various journeys to other schools...... one was St Catherines in the Horse Fair...... so our school gave us all tokens for the fares to get there...

I thanked Barrie very much for allowing me to use his photos..... thank goodness someone like him took such photos, I had some great times in that field and not always good weather...my cycle cape was a good rain shield some days but it didn't deter us did it ?????

Chatting to an old friend Barrie Geens of Kings Heath Book fame.... and who has been a friend for ages going back to a time we both have to whisper dates ...ha ha..... both working at the same company and also cycling ventures...it came to light he'd cycled to Tamworth in very early days from...

Oh how right you are........it was a train journey for us...one shilling and fourpence ha'penny return to New St....what a shock that it went to that from one shilling and a penny ha'penny...it was almost a mini riot ha ha ..... fantastic days there in that field come rain or shine...and a...

Well...rumours of the time said it was built for Burma railways ..but it was a Gresley- Beyer Peacock design 1925 , my childhood neighbour that got me into spotting c1952 was quite into LNER spotter as his grandparents lived in Darlington and he would venture up there often in those old...

My wife also went to ST Clements school.........but as their house fell down in 1953. (she lived next door to Turton's she says)...they were then moved to Northfield

Did you see the Eastern Region Garratt ??? we were off on a spotting day to Tamworth 1955 ish....and there in Saltley yard was 69999....they'd tried it again at Bromsgrove but told the crews there hated it as it was too long to hook up to the back of the trains.......it was said to us that the...

My wife lived in High Park Street and her relatives lived in Railway Terrace.......she swears she used to look over the railway and see the gas works railway engine called 'Little Red Engine' obvious that if it existed it would have belonged to the Gas works....has anyone else had the...

Oh thanks for that.......and what a surprise saying his act was clean...lol..... Pete Goldie I recall...Karl Davies I knew and Bert Weedon I met on many occasions at our house....he eventually married a lady from Shirley.....Vince Reeland I remember so well too.......Thanks for that little...

When you say...Paired with....I take it you mean on the same Bill...like many others were....the likes of Dennis Spicer whom I remember well....Bob Hatch...Jack Cadwallader...Kitty Broadhurst... etc.